Handling the details

Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times

Castañeda helps Maria Cruz Morfin, center, make funeral arrangements for her father, Felix Morfin. Castañeda associates death with suffering and does whatever she can to hide its signature: the evidence of an injury or a medical procedure. Sometimes she just needs to erase its pallor. See full story

Castañeda helps Maria Cruz Morfin, center, make funeral arrangements for her father, Felix Morfin. Castañeda associates death with suffering and does whatever she can to hide its signature: the evidence of an injury or a medical procedure. Sometimes she just needs to erase its pallor. See full story (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

Castañeda helps Maria Cruz Morfin, center, make funeral arrangements for her father, Felix Morfin. Castañeda associates death with suffering and does whatever she can to hide its signature: the evidence of an injury or a medical procedure. Sometimes she just needs to erase its pallor. See full story